What are we here for?

Wow it has been a long time since I have posted anything! I guess grad school and "part time" youth ministry will do that to you. I have been reading alot lately about the Church and how we should do church, and methods of church growth, and how to structure church life. And, all this leaves me with one question. What is the Church? Why is it that no one defines the Church? I wonder if we have become so comfortable in our American life that Church=building. Oh, of course we claim the Church is a group of people that come together to worship God, but even in that is it just when we come together? I thought we are the body of Christ, the bride of Christ, the called out ones. It tears me down to see so many advocates of contemporary Church, community Church, modern Church, emerging Church, and the list goes on. Do we not see this is all a method. We are fighting over how we come together and sing songs, hear the Word, and do other things. Have we ever stopped to ask what we are saying to the world around us? As someone who has done the seminary thing for a while now, one thing that I regretfully notice is that as Christian we place some of our most brilliant minds in strategic position to answer the real questions in life: Predestination or free will, hymns or praise songs, God's sovereignty or man's choice, and the list goes on. Have we thought about what Christ really called us to? As a once heard Louie Giglio say, when will we ask the REAL question: Is God smiling down on us and our lifestyle of worship?